From the Parliamentary Record of Albion Space, Educational Broadcast, House of Resources 

[The following is an excerpt from the public educational archives maintained by the House of Resources, originally recorded for Terra-side distribution. Transcript lightly edited for readability.] 

To understand politics in the Hector-Sabrina family, you must first understand where power in the solar system actually lives. It does not live here. It never has. 

Terra and the Lease 

Ninety-seven years ago, the government of Terra leased the Hector-Sabrina asteroid family to the Commonwealth of Albion. In exchange for the resources necessary to settle this part of the Kuiper Belt, Albion undertook to produce a substantial and continuous volume of video content for Terra-side distribution, and that Terra undertook, in return, to recognize Albion’s governance of the family and to leave it largely alone. 

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